Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Longtime Companion - Sonny & The Sunsets

Biography

Formed: 2007

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

The Sunsets coalesced in 2007 on the eve prolific Bay Area songwriter, author, filmmaker, and optical hmner Sonny Smith. With a rotating lineup made up of San Francisco regulars, including multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz, Tahlia Harbour (the Dry Spells), John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees), Tim Cohen, and Shayde Sartin (Skygreen Leopards), the Sunsets gave Smith a to the full sloppy, immaculately informed backdrop for his atwist love songs and touching moments of completely-likewise-real weirdness. Following a debut EP, Hypnotist,...